HAUNTED PRINCE by DENIS DANIEL (children's ebooks free online txt) 📕

kill those people and I wasn’t even sure they were killed because of me. Since I didn’t even know them. Everyone else that I knew or who I ever got involved with was safe which means the dead bodies were of total strangers.

“Hey,” Alex’s voice startled me as I was walking down the hallway,

“Hey,” I said not trying to hide my surprise.

“I know what you are thinking.”

“What am I thinking?”

“That you are somehow responsible for those peoples’ deaths.”

“Am I not?” I stopped myself from yelling, “Those people had no reason for dying.” I whispered,

“Yes, and it is not your fault either. This is just a bad person with powers to abuse.”

“And that person is hunting me.”

“You’ll be fine because you are strong and you have me.”

“Thank you, I wish I had the same confidence as you. This thing scares me, I don’t know anything about it except it sucks life out of people and put viruses on them to control them.” I couldn’t even hide the worry on my face.

But then the bell rang and we had to go to class and study calculus, which I had no mood to study. I had so many things to deal with and school just seemed pointless. I know before it was what kept me feel normal but now I hardly grasp the normal part of me and as much as I wanted to keep it, it just kept slipping away.

“So, have you made up your mind already?” Alex asked during lunch time.

“Yah, and I would agree Rebecca to help us but my family is off limit.”

“Ok, I won’t talk or say anything about your family.” Rebecca out of nowhere said while sitting down by our table. Many how I hated it when she did that.

“You told her to come?” I was a little irritated that Alex went behind my back.

“Hey, you and I know we don’t have a better shot of defending this thing without her.” Alex defended herself,

She was right though, even though Rebecca wasn’t the best person in the world she was the only person who could give us valid info about that thing.

“Okay fine.” I looked at Alex, “so what now?”

“Now we go to my house, so that Rebecca can tell us what really happened to the bodies.”

“Ok, that sounds like a plan.” Rebecca said with her British accent,

“Whatever, let’s just do it already.” I commented annoyed because she was acting like she finally caught me or something.

“Ok, let’s go everyone is waiting for us.”

“Wait a second, you mean your whole family is there?”

“Yes, what’s wrong with that?” Alex asked like she didn’t know what I was talking about,

“Yah, what’s wrong with her family?” Rebecca added.

“You’ll see, let’s just go.” I turned towards Rebecca and looked straight into her eyes, “and we are taking my car no weird tricks.” Making sure I was clear and I wasn’t ready for an argument.

It’s a good thing I was loud and clear because neither of them said a word. We headed to the parking lot to get my car. And as usual nobody bothered to talk or stop us, I think most preferred I would be gone for good.

At this pace I was going to be gone for good, and I’m not talking about moving to another town but rather another planet altogether, which is god know where somewhere in the galaxies.

The ride was quiet because I was in no mood to talk about anything or anything we were going to do there. And the fact that Alex’s whole family was going to be there made things even more awkward for me. I was having a hard time myself trying to understand everything and now I was going to have to answer a whole bunch of questions.

The only thing I could hope for was that they just leave to do whatever people like them do. Also there was one more thing that I had to focus on, the bodies and Rebecca. Maybe finally get some kind of clue about this thing I was going to face. Because up until now I have no idea what kind of monster I’m going to face apart from its impeccable qualities and skills.

Actually, I didn’t even know why it wanted to kill me apart from the reason that I was a prince. Which I wasn’t very sure about it either. Maybe I could ask Rebecca that, I mean it can’t just hate me because I’m some kind of royalty from a planet I don’t know.

Before I knew it we were at the rough road heading to Alex’s house. I was nervous before I got there but I was even more nervous when I was outside the house. As soon as I parked the car the front door was opened and a couple of people came out. Not as much as the first time, but I counted like eight people there at the porch. There was five adults and three kids who were around twelve and thirteen years old.

Something was different about these people. As soon as I got out of the car I was welcomed with smiles and curious looks, something I wasn’t very used to. However, it did made me less nervous, a little.

Their welcoming hands and smiles made me feel less of a freak and that these people could actually help. When we got inside there was a couple more people, this house was really crowded. And today there was even more people than the first day. There was eight people, six men and two women and one of those women was Iris, I didn’t know the other women.

Out of the middle of the crowd Alex’s father popped out. He greeted us with his casual greeting, his face not giving anything away.

“Hello! I’m glad you are here.” He looked at me once but his eyes settled on Rebecca and said, “I assume this is Rebecca,” he gave her a hand shake, “and she can finally tell us what is going on around here. What really happened to those people?”

He was always straight to the point. And I liked that about him. He never bothered himself with other people’s business. Iris wasn’t trying to seduce me anymore and most were calm and quiet like they were waiting a premier of their favorite TV show.

“You know, my daughter told me we are not dealing with ghosts here. That you told her what happened to these people is some kind of virus infection you say!” he explained while taking us down to the basement.

“I have to see them first. Then I’ll be sure if that is actually what happened.” Rebecca said,

“Very well.” He didn’t say much more, just headed straight up to the end of the room. Today it was different from the last time I was in it. It was cleaner and much less junky which made it brighter when the light was switched on.

There was this big table at the back of the room, like a surgical table. There was something on it and it was covered by a plastic sheet. He removed it and there lied three bodies put tightly together. Two of them were placed closer together and another on top of the others.

The faces were disfigured but not because they were beaten. The faces were like they’d been sucked in, one could see the shape of their teeth through their cheeks. Their foreheads were intensely wrinkled and so were their hands.

The skins weren’t a new thing to me because it was the one thing I remembered the most and the eyes. Those wide opened snow white eyes that can’t be closed which kept staring at the blankness. I couldn’t forget that. Their skins were pale almost white like someone who has been frozen on snow.

Rebecca reached for one hand and tried to hold it but it was stuck or rather too dry to move. It was almost like a dry wood. She couldn’t bend it or move it and so were the fingers of the victim, of all the victims.

“He is here.” She said directly to me.

“What does that supposed to mean?” I asked because I’d heard that before. However, something was different this time, she sounded more urgent and scared if I sensed it right. And for someone with such blank expression most of the time that meant something.

“First things first. Tell us what really happened to these bodies if it’s not some kind of possession from ghosts.” Alex’s father interfered.

“These people weren’t possessed nor infected. These people’s lives were sucked out of their bodies.” Rebecca blurted out.

“Are you sure? What has that kind of ability? Is that even possible?” Alex’s father asked.

Down at the basement there was only four of us, Alex, her father, Rebecca and I. But after what Rebecca said people were starting to pop their heads down stairs to hear more.

I know I was supposed to be totally okay with what she said. I mean that was what everyone thought, but I wasn’t. It didn’t matter how many times I heard it, it still freaked the hell out of me.

“His name is Profillius and he is more dangerous than you think.” She turned facing me, “this is what I have been telling you. Now I don’t think we can defeat him anymore.” She was furious and everyone was looking at us like some people on a reality show or something.

“Ok, slow down a little. We need to know why he is doing this.” Alex’s father said,

“He is doing it to increase his powers and life span. As long as he will keep sucking life out of people he will never grow old.” She paused then leaned on the wall, “you see when our species get involved with your kind our DNA is altered somehow and some of us gain some sort of power.” She looked at the people in the room. Who were like the whole family now!

“You are saying when we get sexually involved with people like you.”

“Yes, I mean the babies will be different. Also to ensure the survival of our species since your planet isn’t very suitable for a pure Keplexin. The gravity is too strong here and the hydrogen in the sky is filled with hydrogen which makes it a little harder for a Keplexin to last long here, since it degrade their cells.”

“I’m sorry to hear that. But back to this life sucking alien, how do we defeat it?” Alex father asked again,

“One thing is for sure. It’s not easy to kill him, for status no weapon here can kill him, only a knife from our planet, it has some minerals from our planet which makes him vulnerable.”

“Do you have the knife here?” Alex father continued interrogating,

“Yes, I have three of them.”

“Good, now we just need to find him.”

“According to Layla’s memories she said they were meeting at a warehouse.” Alex said, “And there is couple warehouses by the industrial street and most are occupied and not empty. Four of them are empty but owned with legitimate companies. One however, has been around for a long time. It is not owned by anyone and it’s old in the brink of falling apart. We think this can be the one.” She explained,

“Impressive.” I said, these people were actually professionals even though to me it was just a weird biggest family I ever saw. I was starting to see it differently now.

“But we do not know how they meet or how they pick day and time to meet, even though we know Layla said they met at night.” Alex continued,

“Normally Profillius doesn’t kill conspicuously like this. So, this means he is powering up. If I’m correct they will meet at Steven’s birthday which is in a week and that is when he is planning to confront Steven as well.” Rebecca explained,

I wasn’t surprised she knew my birthday but that made me even more nervous. From what I heard this guy was no joke. The funny thing is I’d always tried to avoid fights in